MAYA

Tulsi Sahib has described the snare of ignorance which Maya (Illusion) has spread in the world. Even sages and ascetics have not been able to escape her allurements. Her power extends right up to the region of Universal mind. Only those fortunate few escape the net who take the refuge of a living Master.

Nar se niksi ik nari:-

From man emanated a women whose guiles
only a saint comprehends,
She has neither hands nor feet neither head nor body,
and she has devoured the whole world.
Neither mother nor father has she; of herself she is
 born, and has brought misery to her husband.
She is neither young nor old, but ever in bloom,
albeit without a body is she,
All are oblivious of her wiles, while she has enslaved the world.
She neither comes nor goes, neither takes birth nor
dies, for aeons she remains formidable,
Rishis and munis were ruined by her lure;
the whole world moans in distress.
She tore apart the sun, the moon and the planets,
and swallowed them all.
The mobile and the static she has her morsel,
and spread her web in the entire Universe.
Who took the benign protection of the Master,
Were fortunate to awake and escape her;
Who were able to recognise her could alone triumph
over her and cross the Ocean
Says Tulsi, throwing away her snare,, I fled
And attained liberation through association
with Saints.